Dove in the window

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Well, that was anticlimactic.











Poor guy! Narcissus just could not compete with his identical twin taped to the window for the affections of his identical twin in the window! (Well, assuming he's male. I have no idea how to sex white-winged doves.)

He didn't show up for a couple of days, but yesterday morning I spotted what it probably the reason why--one of the neighborhood cats was snoozing on our back porch. We finally got this sequence of photos around midafternoon.

There's a mourning dove who doesn't seem to care one way or the other about company, however, who settled down on the windowsill for a while.

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

That dove wants a partner with a well-rounded personality.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

"During a study of the White-winged Dove's (Zenaida asiatica) breeding biology (Swanson 1989), we found that determining the sex of adults by plumage characteristics alone was difficult, if not impossible."

https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/nabb/v017n04/p0137-p0139.pdf